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Last week’s top story is a look inside the shady practices of on-demand food startups. Quartz deep dives into how companies like Postmates are misleading customers on fees and pricing schemes in order to make their economics work.

Other headlines include celebrity chefs using food waste from the Olympic Games to feed the homeless, why Hormel hired an anthropologist to help improve its R&D and sales and an inside look at a new shared economy platform that acts as a matchmaker between commercial kitchens and food entrepreneurs.

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Tyson has responded to reports of animal cruelty at one of its contract farms by firing several employees and reviewing its policies, which could result in sweeping animal welfare reforms like those Perdue recently announced.